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My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… — Anne Fadiman
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our… — James Redfield
we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud — Gloria Steinem
Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there… — Alex Shakar
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much? — Jodi Picoult
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. — Sherman Alexie
What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody… — Pascal Mercier
When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old,… — Sherman Alexie
We hug, but there are no tears. For every awful thing that's been said and done, she is my sister. Parents die, daughters grow up… — Lisa See
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents… — Ursula K. Le Guin
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me.… — Chris Crutcher
...I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell… — Bernhard Schlink
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…” “Thanks,”… — Cassandra Clare
No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they… — Banana Yoshimoto
We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory… — Robertson Davies
I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard. — James Patterson
But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who… — Chris Adrian
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children… — E. M. Forster
Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that… — Michael Robotham
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be… — Natsuo Kirino
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college, — Woody Allen
How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school.… — Brian K. Vaughan
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we… — Charles Taylor
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other… — John Updike
like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching… — Naomi Shihab Nye

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